Originally posted by: mindless1
Originally posted by: esquared
You're not better off if you need to 4 or 5 GB of space. The price for the 4GB flash drives are still 250.00+ 4 GB Flash drivesOriginally posted by: mindless1
It "Could" be used, sure, but even so, you're still bettter off with a non-mechanical (real flash) USB drive because of all the aforementioned issues.
$69.99 for 4 GB of drive is the best price right now. I have both kinds of drives and each serves a purpose. It seems you are trying to talk people out of buying this drive. My drive has worked perfectly in every USB circustance. Especially my laptop. These drives should not have power issues because this is the kind of job they were designed for.
Not trying to talk anyone out of anything, even wrote it was a good price. Even so, it is only reasonable to highlight the primary differences, that there is more to it than only 4GB for $nn. I can throw my flash drive against the wall and it'll still work, among the other positive attributes already mentioned. For portability, this is really big. Anything you have to make space for is big when you already have plenty of other "gear" to tote around, unless you're wearing jungle pants with deep pockets or a purse, and I just don't have any of the latter.
That's just my opinion, anyone can decide for themselves. Why would I care if you bought it? Yes it must be a conspiracy... against, umm ???
Originally posted by: Alienwho
Who would buy a 4GB flash drive for $250+ when you can buy an ipod nano 4gb for roughly the same price?
Originally posted by: esquared
Bad example about abusing the drive, I doubt either one would survive being thrown against the wall.
Good to know in case I ever accidentally put a nail through mine.Originally posted by: Devistater
You should read some of the websites that have tested abusing USB flash drives (with flash memory, not mini hdds) have done. Stuff like soak in water, hit with hammer, step on, run car over, throw against walls, drop on concrete from a story or more up. I even recall one test that drove a nail through the flash drives. Most failed the nail test but amazingly some actually WORKED!
They are small and dont have moving parts so they tend to survive a lot, and none of the parts are particularly fragile.
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Will this work on an iMac (revision B) OS 9.x?
Originally posted by: Slickone
Good to know in case I ever accidentally put a nail through mine.Originally posted by: Devistater
You should read some of the websites that have tested abusing USB flash drives (with flash memory, not mini hdds) have done. Stuff like soak in water, hit with hammer, step on, run car over, throw against walls, drop on concrete from a story or more up. I even recall one test that drove a nail through the flash drives. Most failed the nail test but amazingly some actually WORKED!
They are small and dont have moving parts so they tend to survive a lot, and none of the parts are particularly fragile.
http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/2306p099id120342.htmFive memory cards for digital cameras were subjected to a range of tests.
The formats were CompactFlash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick and Smartmedia.
Memory cards
We knew modern memory cards were durable, but had no idea they would be quite so tough
Even some of the thinner cards that appear to be fragile fared well in the trial.
They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.
Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.
Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.
Even then, data experts Ontrack Data Recovery were able to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards.
http://pcextreme.net/adata_jogr.phpI knocked the drive off a desk onto a hardwood floor, dropped it, stepped on it, and buried it in the sand. It also took a spin through the washing machine and dryer. Just to mix things up, I ran over it with my car, too.
There is truth in advertising. Neither water, heat, sand, nor BMW could keep the memory key from its appointed storage rounds. Abuse bounced off the Lexar like bullets off Superman. The car did squeeze the metal USB connector tip a tad tighter, but the device was still able to make contact with the USB port, and it worked perfectly. No wonder these durable drives have kicked the venerable floppy into extinction. GRADE: EXTREMELY STURDY
http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?page_id=243* Washing machine and clothes dryer test. This simulates the "Oh crap, I forgot to empty my pockets!" scenerio.
* Drop/Shock tests. Drop the drive from various heights, to see how much of a "shock" it can survive.
For the washing machine/clothes drier test, I put the drive into a pocket on a pair of denim jeans, threw them into the washer and washed them. After that, the jeans went into the clothes drier for 20 minutes, until the jeans were completely dry.
Results: The Adata 512MB USB Flash Disk survived, and worked flawfessly!
For the drop/shock test, I dropped the Adata Flash Disk from several different heights, onto different surfaces:
* From 6 feet - onto carpet.
* From 6 feet onto concrete.
* From 12 feet onto a grassy lawn.
* From 12 feet onto concrete.
* From 25 feet onto a grassy lawn.
* From 25 feet onto concrete.
Results: The Adata 512MB USB Flash Disk survived once again, to my surprise and again worked flawfessly, proving that the drive is truly shockproof even under severe conditions.
http://news.com.com/CompactFlash+card+t...keeps+ticking/2100-1041_3-5322819.htmlThe test was simple - I took the USB device and immersed it in water. Before immersion I had loaded a set of files onto it.
Because the device had a lot of plastic around it it was hard to get it submerged completely so I took the plastic apart and drowned the inner components.
The electronics were submerged for 24 hours, after which I took them out and placed it into boiling water for 5 minutes (the water wasn?t kept at boiling point for the whole 5 minutes). After the boiling water I placed the components into coffee for 5 minutes and Coca Cola (Lime flavor if you want to know) for another 5 minutes. I then removed the components and rinsed them in distilled water to remove all residue of the coffee and cola and allowed them to dry naturally for 24 hours on a paper towel in a warm place but not on or near to any artificial heat sources.
The Results
After a thorough drying I connected the device to the PC and the device worked perfectly.
Don Frazier is glad he wasn't any closer to his camera when it shot a photo of a local bridge demolition.
Blammo!
Earlier this month, 50-year-old Frazier was assigned by the Southeast Missourian newspaper to take photos of the dismantling of a section of a highway bridge along the Mississippi River. He set up three digital cameras, about 240 feet away from the bridge, on the Missouri side of the river in Cape Girardeau, Mo. That was too close, as two of the cameras were damaged and a third was totally destroyed--but not before capturing images of the bridge's final moments.
The 256MB SanDisk CompactFlash card used in the camera survived the blast and stored the images until Frazier could later download them to his PC. The cards are solid-state media, which means that the circuits are made of solid materials and have no moving parts.
"After looking at the camera, I was amazed that the card worked," Frazier said. "The card was literally blown out of the camera and was sitting a foot away from what was left of the camera."
City officials and some of the demolition crew wanted onlookers at least 800 feet away, but Frazier's remote controls for the cameras only had a range of 600 feet.
He worked it out, signing several waivers and agreeing to stand behind some construction equipment so that he could be close enough to activate his cameras. He felt the blast.
"The pressure from the explosion had to go somewhere, so it followed the path of least resistance, which was on level with where my cameras were set up," Frazier said.
The pressure created from 600 pounds of dynamite exploding caused about $15,000 worth of damage to Frazier's gear.
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: allisolm
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Will this work on an iMac (revision B) OS 9.x?
Simpletech - yes. link Mac OS 8.6 and above.
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Originally posted by: Yo2
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: allisolm
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Will this work on an iMac (revision B) OS 9.x?
Simpletech - yes. link Mac OS 8.6 and above.
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